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a lot of people regulate in this environment and we feel like not everybody is talking to each other. however, this report is going to have a large of discussion here people will disagree with the chronology. some will disagree with the findings. but we hope is the solutions, because everybody recognizes the fact that the money went missing and that's a flawed and needed to fix that. so as the solutions come forward, some may not require congress to act. the industry itself may take the perp reactions. some may require beneath enabling legislation for the solution. if they do, we will bring that forward. yes, sir. >> you charge about how the answer is not a regulation that existing was better. he proposed several roles in the last several weeks about the scandal and also development -- >> well, one of the things that came out of that number one, don't use the alternative method. i think it's a good ting on their behalf. but we do hope is the regulatory community is doing a self-examination of coming in zero, this process as well. we hope this will provide additional information. they
a lot of people regulate in this environment and we feel like not everybody is talking to each other. however, this report is going to have a large of discussion here people will disagree with the chronology. some will disagree with the findings. but we hope is the solutions, because everybody recognizes the fact that the money went missing and that's a flawed and needed to fix that. so as the solutions come forward, some may not require congress to act. the industry itself may take the perp...
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that's the environment we live in in the uk, and totally allow the uk budget to keep increasing year after year after year. austerity is being imposed on many member states when we're seeing cutbacks to many other essential public services is completely understandable. i'm sure you and david cameron would disagree on a way forward. thank you. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: ms. harms. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i would like to point out, i don't see the uk as strong but as a country which requires them come into the reforms very much, seems to be de-industrialized. i don't think with an anti-european position they can steer this country on a healthy course. secondly, tomorrow i will be traveling to greece. so i've taken a close look at the current situation, and i think you must admit finally that with reform attempts that they've exhausted everything. they have cut pensions, cut wages, within germany, wasn't imagined. is pure austerity policy. directed from germany. and during the times of the world's worst economic crisis that will end in a disaster. and
that's the environment we live in in the uk, and totally allow the uk budget to keep increasing year after year after year. austerity is being imposed on many member states when we're seeing cutbacks to many other essential public services is completely understandable. i'm sure you and david cameron would disagree on a way forward. thank you. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: ms. harms. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i would like to point out, i don't see the uk...
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i think that we have kept ourselves still in this environment has been extremely competitive and you reference an area for the united states and that's energy. the united states is number one in natural gas. the united states has been working very aggressively in terms of ensuring that it is energy independent and towards this end, just the other day at "the wall street journal" highlighted the fact that the united states is now really grown exponentially in terms of its own oil production. i think were going to see more of that. precious to different powerbase and you were describing in an important range of changes, but another one that's going to matter in terms of the overall geopolitical calculation and our providing a kind of firewall for ourselves, we are doing it in this energy area and that's because of technology and diversity in those technologies. >> one last one for wolfgang and pollock. a year ago there was a lot more pessimistic talk about the failure of the western model, success is state capitalism in china and so forth. there seems to be the markup to mystic town ir
i think that we have kept ourselves still in this environment has been extremely competitive and you reference an area for the united states and that's energy. the united states is number one in natural gas. the united states has been working very aggressively in terms of ensuring that it is energy independent and towards this end, just the other day at "the wall street journal" highlighted the fact that the united states is now really grown exponentially in terms of its own oil...
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, but not this environment, the level of focus and needs to be placed on this challenge in this environment is much different than they have experienced another environment. i need to make sure that the level of leadership focus and attention we're putting on this now is institutionalized. one of the features of military services, next summer i'm going to have turned over half my commanders. people come in from all sorts of different places who are part of this challenge right now and they need to have been focused on this and i don't want to depend if they just heard about it because it won't work. i've got enough experience to know that. so i need to institutionalize the leadership focus on this and that's why i'm going to have a charter, a regular meeting schedule for the oversight council so that among other things on a changeover over half the leadership team next year, i've got an institutional way to keep them focused on a problem that if you take it out of your crosscheck coming in now, for very long it will get out of control. >> is that the underlying issue seemed to be a dispropo
, but not this environment, the level of focus and needs to be placed on this challenge in this environment is much different than they have experienced another environment. i need to make sure that the level of leadership focus and attention we're putting on this now is institutionalized. one of the features of military services, next summer i'm going to have turned over half my commanders. people come in from all sorts of different places who are part of this challenge right now and they need...
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in the cyber environment, it's the same thing. intelligence is the key to understanding exactly what's occurring, not just what happened, but how and why they did it, and sharing information and intelligence, you have to identify threats before they are a problem. >> host: shawn henry, the guest, formally with the fbi, topic on cyber crimes out there against the country. thank you for your time and insight this morning. >> guest: thank you for having me, appreciate it. >> the mind set of the world well into the 1990s was that wire line access with stuff on poles or buried in the ground was the key to understanding competition and telecommunications. it's not -- the intriguing part of the wireless story is how very few people inside the industry, that's why the mckenzie report came out how it did. it was not just judge green and the fcc who did not understand the potential of wireless. it was the entire industry except for a few visionaries who were sort of regarded as kooks, and what turned out to be the case was the hope that som
in the cyber environment, it's the same thing. intelligence is the key to understanding exactly what's occurring, not just what happened, but how and why they did it, and sharing information and intelligence, you have to identify threats before they are a problem. >> host: shawn henry, the guest, formally with the fbi, topic on cyber crimes out there against the country. thank you for your time and insight this morning. >> guest: thank you for having me, appreciate it. >> the...
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the flow and investment and people follow countries that have a more competitive environment, and taxes is one of them. reform the tax code. when you do that, you get more revenue. guaranteed almost. i mean, it's, again, it's as i said earlier, there's opportunities here, and this is an opportunity for us as a country, and as you look at the budget analysis, joint tax committee analysis of what tax reform could be in terms of economic and growth, i mean, all of them will lead to more growth whether it's corporate tax reform or individual tax reform. >> right, but if the president insists, said last friday, he said this was fought over in the campaign, and we fought over tax rates, rising tax rates, he didn't use the word "rates" himself, but the press secretary said the president would veto any bill that extends tax rates. if he insists rates go up for those making over $250,000, what would your recommendation be to the republican congress in the senate? >> working in two white houses, i believe a president has a veto over the press secretary, thank goodness, because i like the presiden
the flow and investment and people follow countries that have a more competitive environment, and taxes is one of them. reform the tax code. when you do that, you get more revenue. guaranteed almost. i mean, it's, again, it's as i said earlier, there's opportunities here, and this is an opportunity for us as a country, and as you look at the budget analysis, joint tax committee analysis of what tax reform could be in terms of economic and growth, i mean, all of them will lead to more growth...
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this flow of capital will follow countries that have more competitive environment and taxes are one of them. yes, we have to reform the tax code. when you do that, i will get more revenue. it is guaranteed. again, sort of as i was talking about earlier. this is opportunities here. this is opportunity for us as a country. if you look at the congressional budget analysis and joint tax committee analysis, what tax reform could mean in terms of macroeconomic impact and growth, all will lead to more growth, whether corporate tax reform or individual tax reform. >> right but if the president insists as he did last friday, this was fought over in the campaign and, fought over tax rates, rising tax rates, he didn't ice the words rates himself but jay carney, the white house press secretary said the president will veto any bill that extends the current tax rates. if he insists that tax rates go up for those making over $250,000, what's, what would your recommendation be to the republican congress and senate? >> first having worked in two white houses i believe a president does have a veto over
this flow of capital will follow countries that have more competitive environment and taxes are one of them. yes, we have to reform the tax code. when you do that, i will get more revenue. it is guaranteed. again, sort of as i was talking about earlier. this is opportunities here. this is opportunity for us as a country. if you look at the congressional budget analysis and joint tax committee analysis, what tax reform could mean in terms of macroeconomic impact and growth, all will lead to more...
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but there is support for it in this environment. the system will dissolve because there's resistance. >> trevor, i often feel when you talk to political operatives on both sides and fundraisers on both sides and donors, there's a strong word, but it's kind of a self hating quality to the people who are participating in the system. they feel trapped. this thing is going to go on and therefore the plaintiff used to it. is that what is sustaining this? >> well, during the course of the campaign i had a chance to talk to a range of major republican donors and even may feel republicans are more interested in the super pacs. the party had embraced them and citizens united. i thought rummy donors say to me, this is terrible. i don't want to rent an unlimited check if this is not our president not to get selected and we need to talk about this after the election. so now i think one of the things that i be doing is certainly untruths are you back around and say are you into changing the system? if you look at it, even the candidates are pris
but there is support for it in this environment. the system will dissolve because there's resistance. >> trevor, i often feel when you talk to political operatives on both sides and fundraisers on both sides and donors, there's a strong word, but it's kind of a self hating quality to the people who are participating in the system. they feel trapped. this thing is going to go on and therefore the plaintiff used to it. is that what is sustaining this? >> well, during the course of the...
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tomorrow our committee on environment and public works, which the presiding officer serves on with such distinction, will hold a legislative hearing on the water resources development act. i appreciate very much chairman boxer's response to storms like sandy and the foresight she had to include a post-disaster program in the draft that will help states like mine recover from extreme exreem events such as hurricane sandy. also included is the northeast coastal restoration program aimed at building the natural and manmade barriers and wufers bufers from that protect our lives, our infrastructure and our natural resources from storms like sandy. when average temperatures rise you can also expect daily temperature records to be broken. and when average sea level rises, you can also expect an increase in peak coastal flooding. in fact, we have seen thousands of daily temperature records broken and costly coastal flooding, and the pain and damage caused by these extreme events has inevitably turned the nation's he attention to climate change. that is why a growing chorus of choices is convinc
tomorrow our committee on environment and public works, which the presiding officer serves on with such distinction, will hold a legislative hearing on the water resources development act. i appreciate very much chairman boxer's response to storms like sandy and the foresight she had to include a post-disaster program in the draft that will help states like mine recover from extreme exreem events such as hurricane sandy. also included is the northeast coastal restoration program aimed at...
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he has responsibilities that the environment that the environment and public works committee to i believe he is going to post a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. >> first of all -- >> how lolita. >> you were supposed to be there, too. >> thank you, senator mccain. i do have to get up to the committee. committee. i did appreciate it let me ask to short questions if i might, and one, i want to get on record in agreeing with the comments that senator mccain made about general allen. secondly, in response to a written question, general, it said you agree to follow recovery of 33,000 u.s. search force in afghanistan for the reduction in u.s. worst level should continue at a steady pace to 2014 be your response was i agree that there will be further troop reductions through 2014, but the pace of the withdrawal over the next 25 months would depend on several factors. one of this is the readiness. we had a hearing, may 10 and you testified at the hearing. i've always considered you to be one of the real top individuals, understanding and evaluating training. and you and i talked about this b
he has responsibilities that the environment that the environment and public works committee to i believe he is going to post a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. >> first of all -- >> how lolita. >> you were supposed to be there, too. >> thank you, senator mccain. i do have to get up to the committee. committee. i did appreciate it let me ask to short questions if i might, and one, i want to get on record in agreeing with the comments that senator mccain made about...
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in the name of saving the environment. for example, for the same -- it would take a row of 50 wind turbines from the appalachian trail to maine, that's 178 miles, to produce the same amount of electricity that four nuclear reactors would produce. the best way, mr. president, to produce cheap, clean energy in the united states is to let the marketplace do it, let the marketplace do it, not to subsidize jobs for technology that can stand on its own and produces only a small amount of unreliable electricity. so, mr. president, let's use this week to celebrate but let's celebrate the end of the temporary 21-year-old wind production tax credit and use the $12.1 billion saved to reduce the federal debt. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu: thank you, mr. president. i have come to the floor to speak just briefly about a very exciting opportunity and occurrence that we celebrate and honor every november, and that is the opportunity t
in the name of saving the environment. for example, for the same -- it would take a row of 50 wind turbines from the appalachian trail to maine, that's 178 miles, to produce the same amount of electricity that four nuclear reactors would produce. the best way, mr. president, to produce cheap, clean energy in the united states is to let the marketplace do it, let the marketplace do it, not to subsidize jobs for technology that can stand on its own and produces only a small amount of unreliable...
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more -- and i think that is because of something we can do about it, is the things we are doing to the environment, making these things more unbearable. construction, an earthquake there was one in chile that killed less than a hundred people, fewer than a hundred people. all of these things, and people have been forced to leave the countryside, to come to the city. so we often also discussed these things and how devotion in the land -- how it causes us to have these massive mudslides and flooding when a hurricane goes through. these things, they are more of the things that we can do something about as a community. but these other theories, they are also talked about. >> host: in reading through your book, "so spoke the earth: the haiti i knew, the haiti i know, the haiti i want to know", i was struck that so many writers return to haiti. >> guest: i think so many of us come as children. we were a lot like our parents. arkansas like they had no choice to leave. so you do have this yearning for your country. and i have a lot of family that i did quite a lot. but there is this yearning, things that
more -- and i think that is because of something we can do about it, is the things we are doing to the environment, making these things more unbearable. construction, an earthquake there was one in chile that killed less than a hundred people, fewer than a hundred people. all of these things, and people have been forced to leave the countryside, to come to the city. so we often also discussed these things and how devotion in the land -- how it causes us to have these massive mudslides and...
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system, and so it's awkward to support a group like this, but there is support like this, for this environment. i think it will desolve because there's resistance. >> trevor, i feel when you talk about political operatives on both sides and fundraisers on both sides, and donors, there's a strong word, but there's a self-hating quality to people in the system who feel trapped. i mean this thing will just go on and they will play and get used to it. is that what's sustaining this? what keeps it going? >> well, during the course of the campaign, i had a chance to talk to a range of major republican donors, and even they, i mean, i say "even they" because republicans were more interested in the super pacs, the party embraced them, and citizens united, but romney donors said this is terrible. i don't want to write an up limited check. this is not our the president ought to get selectedded, and we need to talk about this after the election. you know, now eng one of the thing -- i think i'll be doing is circling around so are you interested in changing the system? if you look at it, even the candidat
system, and so it's awkward to support a group like this, but there is support like this, for this environment. i think it will desolve because there's resistance. >> trevor, i feel when you talk about political operatives on both sides and fundraisers on both sides, and donors, there's a strong word, but there's a self-hating quality to people in the system who feel trapped. i mean this thing will just go on and they will play and get used to it. is that what's sustaining this? what...
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interview, in his view of injecting new tensions in the regional environment. all of this again is against the backdrop of an unsettled regional picture that emerged over the past year or more. it will as soon be a major item for discussion and east asia summit, which will take place i guess tomorrow, jeff? yeah. now, the military in all of this i think is playing a larger role and how china presents its policy options. certainly there is an increased emphasis on the acquisition and development of new capabilities. even as, and this is telling as well, the u.s.-china military to military relationship has actually been much more active. secretary panetta of course was in china in september, and when xi jinping was in the united states last january he specifically wanted to pay a visit to the pentagon, which he did. so it indicates that xi i is not necessary just to himself from this kind of relationship. you may even see a kind of value added and identifying with it. at the way that china is trying to improve its advantage, if you will, is to present itself as a
interview, in his view of injecting new tensions in the regional environment. all of this again is against the backdrop of an unsettled regional picture that emerged over the past year or more. it will as soon be a major item for discussion and east asia summit, which will take place i guess tomorrow, jeff? yeah. now, the military in all of this i think is playing a larger role and how china presents its policy options. certainly there is an increased emphasis on the acquisition and development...
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as we all know white house environment -- involvement was not an isolated incident. the energy and commerce committee of the house of representatives, e-mails specifically refer to joe biden and his staff advocating for solyndra, the solar panel company that received $528 million in loan guarantees before declaring bankruptcy in september of 2011. solyndra was rushed through in september of 2009 so that vice president joe biden could appear at the opening on september 4th. on august 31st, days before and, a communications aide to the vice president asked them to speed this up and there was pushed back from career staff at the office of management and budget. kevin carroll was chief of the office of management and budget energy staff, quote, i would prefer this announcement be postponed. this is the first loan guarantee and we should have a full review with all hands on deck to make sure we get it right. they didn't get it right and five hundred twenty-eight million taxpayer dollars were lost. it could be seen that the energy loan guarantees and a notoriously unsucces
as we all know white house environment -- involvement was not an isolated incident. the energy and commerce committee of the house of representatives, e-mails specifically refer to joe biden and his staff advocating for solyndra, the solar panel company that received $528 million in loan guarantees before declaring bankruptcy in september of 2011. solyndra was rushed through in september of 2009 so that vice president joe biden could appear at the opening on september 4th. on august 31st, days...
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that's the environment we've been living in the u.k. and simply allow the budget to keep increasing year after year after year and it's being imposed on many member states and we see the cutbacks in many other essential public services completely unsustainable and i sure that you and david cameron would disagree on the mutually conclusive way forward. thank you. >> translator: thank you very much mrs. harms. i would like to point out i don't see the u.k. as strong, but as a country which requires internal reforms very much seems to be the industrialized and mr. miller band i don't think with the entire european position vacant steer this country on a healthy course. second, tomorrow i will be traveling to greece so i've taken a close look at the current situation and i think we must admit finally that with that reform they have exhausted everything, past pensions and they've cut wages, which in germany wasn't imagined even in the time. it's pure austerity policy directly from germany and they're doing it at times of the worst world econ
that's the environment we've been living in the u.k. and simply allow the budget to keep increasing year after year after year and it's being imposed on many member states and we see the cutbacks in many other essential public services completely unsustainable and i sure that you and david cameron would disagree on the mutually conclusive way forward. thank you. >> translator: thank you very much mrs. harms. i would like to point out i don't see the u.k. as strong, but as a country which...
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its population control, the environment and they don't have anything in common with us. they get a peak of did a couple people they have out front to be their conservative individuals but if you really start peeling back the leaders of the onion and will make you cry. it's not conservative at all. they've got us fighting on this issue so much that the national conservative authors are claiming that it's one of the conservative principles. we need to use our conservative principles to address our problem and i think that is what has happened to the recent and it's not just about trying to win the election but grow the party and welcome people and we are wanting you to feel like you are at home. many to learn that in their rhetoric that has been displayed and is doing more damage than it is good. >> i should preface my remarks on this by saying i am in complete agreement that conservatives and republicans need to do a better job or some cases a job for the first time to appeal to hispanic voters and other nonwhite voters but we shouldn't kid ourselves about some of the obs
its population control, the environment and they don't have anything in common with us. they get a peak of did a couple people they have out front to be their conservative individuals but if you really start peeling back the leaders of the onion and will make you cry. it's not conservative at all. they've got us fighting on this issue so much that the national conservative authors are claiming that it's one of the conservative principles. we need to use our conservative principles to address...
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the more that we can go into these environments which are very, very important places to be, and debate our core value, not just explained them, not just lecture, but actually debate our greatest strengths i think will be stronger. so that was one of the ways we really tried to do that. and also to take the benefit of the folks who were there in the field, give information as to who was the important audiences for the bbg. >> can i just clarify one thing? when i said more guidance from foreign policy leadership for the bbg, i certainly didn't mean that the bbg should forsake or distort or anyway jeopardize the journalistic values. very, very important. but for example, the bbg's, the board of governors decide where the assets are allocated. in other words, if the governors decide we're going to put all the money into india, it's their decision rather than the part of the more strategic decision-making process. congress would get involved if all the money went to one country. >> do you think? [laughter] >> there's certain country's bbg would like to get rid of that congress wouldn't allo
the more that we can go into these environments which are very, very important places to be, and debate our core value, not just explained them, not just lecture, but actually debate our greatest strengths i think will be stronger. so that was one of the ways we really tried to do that. and also to take the benefit of the folks who were there in the field, give information as to who was the important audiences for the bbg. >> can i just clarify one thing? when i said more guidance from...
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a broader base for its economy to develop a concept of security and other than intimidation of its environment. hy was meeting place with a group of people described as reformers in russia and many of the proposals of the strategy and so forth that the meetings, all of this means you want a democratic system and you are crazy. >> another question about china. the question is is there some level of corruption in chinese politicians inevitable and is there some level that is acceptable to the party and the problem lying ahead is above the threshold? >> it was primarily corruption. it was primarily an attempt to achieve pre-eminence or eminence of side -- outside the established patterns where progress is made within the party because if he succeeded with population methods it would change the structure of the party and some sense of corruption as well. there's some level of corruption acceptable? outside -- every indication is for there will be demonstrative efforts to curtail corruption. the second question, i think they will succeed but it will be -- >> another question from the group. with th
a broader base for its economy to develop a concept of security and other than intimidation of its environment. hy was meeting place with a group of people described as reformers in russia and many of the proposals of the strategy and so forth that the meetings, all of this means you want a democratic system and you are crazy. >> another question about china. the question is is there some level of corruption in chinese politicians inevitable and is there some level that is acceptable to...
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but also along with training them, you have to create an institution and environment were you see guys going to happen and it's not necessarily a career ender when it happened. but we are working on it and i think we've gotten better because it's absolutely essential that we do. briefly in the demographics, one of the things i noticed was about 70% are public diplomacy dollars were spent if you do it demographically on an over the age we flipped out because looking at the world and the way it is, the fact of the matter is you have a far better opportunity employment being a planting seeds of the younger demographic, paul said it is difficult when someone reaches 40, 50, 62 change their perception of their ideas. when they are younger you have an ability to do it. if we can have a good conversation with a young girl in pakistan, 15 or 16 years old, she will be able to change the perception of the united states and her family and her community and away we never could. so it's a wise estimate, not just for the future, but frankly for right now. >> so with a clash of technology and culture
but also along with training them, you have to create an institution and environment were you see guys going to happen and it's not necessarily a career ender when it happened. but we are working on it and i think we've gotten better because it's absolutely essential that we do. briefly in the demographics, one of the things i noticed was about 70% are public diplomacy dollars were spent if you do it demographically on an over the age we flipped out because looking at the world and the way it...
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and we are looking at, as you said, an environment in which people are really in panic mode over the fiscal cliff. and i think there is a lot of support actually because the population doesn't seem to understand what exactly the fiscal cliff is and what it means and what they're hearing on television is an awful lot of hype about what's going to happen come if the fiscal cliff isn't a boy. and i think what that is doing is it's generating quite a bit of support for both sides to come together. it seems like the right thing to do, put your partisan differences aside and do what's best for the country. and figure out someway to avoid the cliff. and what that means in practice is striking some kind of a deal. what we are probably all heard referred to as a grand bargain. and i think what is important to keep in mind is that the grand bargain itself is really a form of austerity. it's an austerity plan. and so when you got an economy that is still struggling to fully find its feet, and you're at the same time talking about imposing austerity, i think we've seen pretty clearly watching wh
and we are looking at, as you said, an environment in which people are really in panic mode over the fiscal cliff. and i think there is a lot of support actually because the population doesn't seem to understand what exactly the fiscal cliff is and what it means and what they're hearing on television is an awful lot of hype about what's going to happen come if the fiscal cliff isn't a boy. and i think what that is doing is it's generating quite a bit of support for both sides to come together....
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had a very different experience but ultimately that was what we knew and what landers said about our environment. >> within the family, what were some of the dynamics? >> my father was, he was mexican-american. my mother was european-american and so that kind of created a very, sort of a complicated household. they had a lot of children right away in the late 60's, early 70's. i don't know if this was traditional to most, you know, hispanic or american families that my sisters were kind of the property of my mother and my brother and myself for the property of my dad. as boys, working with the father who wants a trucking company, we were sort of like the indentured laborers for him. my sisters were living this almost idyllic lifestyle as princesses. and so, that is kind of the intentions i draw from early on in the book. >> how much your family still alive and what do they think of the book, the boy kings? >> every member of my family is still alive. my grandmother and while the story is tough and gritty, they have actually been supported. my mother and my father haven't really kind of come to t
had a very different experience but ultimately that was what we knew and what landers said about our environment. >> within the family, what were some of the dynamics? >> my father was, he was mexican-american. my mother was european-american and so that kind of created a very, sort of a complicated household. they had a lot of children right away in the late 60's, early 70's. i don't know if this was traditional to most, you know, hispanic or american families that my sisters were...
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you said that her personality change, when she went from one environment to another, what environment was the environment she was going to that caused the permit change? do you think that it was a culture thing from that environment? if so, can you elaborate more on the culture that she had -- that had changed her personality and what you think needs to be done? >> guest: yeah, you know, well, what happened was that when my father came here to the united states, my mother was left with us back in mexico, and she had to suffer, you know, the way a lot of wives suffer when they see their husbands go to another country, and there was a fear of being forgotten, abandoned, him finding another woman while he's gone. this was a fear that my mother had every single day about my father finding himself another woman here in the u.s., and forgetting about us and about her so she had to deal with this every single day, and when my father sent for her, it was such an amazing moment for her to feel wanted, to feel that her husband actually needed her by his side, and this is why she came because sh
you said that her personality change, when she went from one environment to another, what environment was the environment she was going to that caused the permit change? do you think that it was a culture thing from that environment? if so, can you elaborate more on the culture that she had -- that had changed her personality and what you think needs to be done? >> guest: yeah, you know, well, what happened was that when my father came here to the united states, my mother was left with us...
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can be economically competitive in a global environment. >> later today british prime minister david cameron delivers his keynote address on policy at the lord mayor's banquet in london. the event is attended by members of the city's financial and diplomatic corps. you can see his remarks live at 3:30 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> 2013 should be the year we begin to solve our debt through tax reform and entitlement reform. and i'm proposing that we avert the fiscal cliff together in a manner that insures that 2013 is finally the year that our government comes to grips with the major problems that are facing us. >> i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i am not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. >> the newly-elected congress starts work in january, but the current congress still has work to do through the end of the year in what's
can be economically competitive in a global environment. >> later today british prime minister david cameron delivers his keynote address on policy at the lord mayor's banquet in london. the event is attended by members of the city's financial and diplomatic corps. you can see his remarks live at 3:30 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> 2013 should be the year we begin to solve our debt through tax reform and entitlement reform. and i'm proposing that we avert the fiscal cliff together...
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it's the environment is their god, and they don't have anything in common with them. they get a couple of people they pay out in front to be there fair-haired conservative credentials individual, but if you really start getting back lives of the onion it will make you cry. it's not conservative at all. so they have hijacked the party on the issue and they got a fighting on this issue to so much of people, national conservative authors are claiming that immigration issues one of the conservative principles. it's like since when did this become a conservative principle? when you use our conservative principles to address this problem, not complain about the problem. i think that is what's happened of recent, and as such is not trying to win elections but it's trying to grow the party and welcome people. and i'm the hospitality. we are welcoming you to be there. we're wanting you to feel like you're at home. as a party we need to learn from the. we need to do in the anti-immigration rhetoric of that has been displayed doing more damage than it is good. >> ramesh, do you
it's the environment is their god, and they don't have anything in common with them. they get a couple of people they pay out in front to be there fair-haired conservative credentials individual, but if you really start getting back lives of the onion it will make you cry. it's not conservative at all. so they have hijacked the party on the issue and they got a fighting on this issue to so much of people, national conservative authors are claiming that immigration issues one of the conservative...